Miami Vice....with tape!

I received this Color Club polish in my June Birchbox last week.  I LOVE this color.  If I had to pick my trends for 2013 it seems to be going towards bright neon colors and texture.  This Color Club polish in Reign in Spain does not disappoint.  It is such a vibrant neon peachy color.  I just knew I needed to do it up.  When I saw MissJenFabulous at Polish and Pearls recent nail tape design in similar colors [found here ], I knew exactly what I was going to do.  Miami Vice color scheme tiger stripes of course! She does such great work on her blog and vlog...
Now the fun in this for me is that I am not 100% satisfied with my nail tape mani skills.  Sometimes it is not as neat as I would like it to be.  So this is a bit of an adventure for me while I get the "reign" on my skills.

Julep Denver and Color Club Reign in Spain

I started by paining full nails with Color Club and, when dry, placed cut pieces of scotch tape on my nail.  Cutting the tape in triangle pieces, I placed them from side to side on my nail.  And then painted over it.  

The tricky part for me is pulling the tape off.  It needs to be done while wet, but sometimes I pull it off too soon and it runs.  But if I wait too long, it gets kinda stringy and bleeds and/or gets chunky.  And then there is just my eagerness to get the Seche Vite rapid dry top coat on and I drag the color...all these things happened in this mani.  But at a much as I may create my own chaos, I still really like this mani.